You are both correct. I have about 390-400 feet of pipe from the meter to my house cut off. We lived on well for about 11 years and the county ran water down our street last December and things have been fine until recently. The county did fix the small leak at the meter that connects into my line only because they hooked it up. We had a major leak about 2 weeks ago where two pieces of pipe underground simply just pulled loose. There was only about a 1/4 inch holding them together in the bell housing. We fixed it and of course started watching the meter again to see if it corrected it and in one since it did fix the major leak but again we know there has to be another one. Should I put cut off's every 100 ft or so up through the line?